ABOUT

Described by Carlo Maria Giulini as ‘extraordinarily gifted’, Alexander Romanovsky is a riveting, individual and subtle performer with an utterly engaging voice.

At the age of seventeen, he won 1st Prize in the renowned Busoni Competition in Italy and since 2007 has released three critically acclaimed CDs on the Decca label of music by Schumann, Brahms and Rachmaninov, prompting the New York Times to commend him as ‘special, not just an extraordinary technician with a flair for color and fantasy, but also a sensitive musician and lucid interpreter.’

Born in the Ukraine in 1984, Alexander studied with Leonid Margarius at the Imola Piano Academy and with Dmitry Alexeev at the Royal College of Music in London. He has recently appeared as soloist both with the Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev in the Mariinsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg and with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Michael Pletnev in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, as well as with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican in London and the English Chamber Orchestra.

He has been invited to major European festivals and venues including La Roque d'Anthéron in France, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr in Germany and the Chopin and his Europe Piano Festival in Warsaw, and is a frequent guest of the International Piano Festival Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Brescia and Bergamo, Italy. He has performed with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and toured as soloist with Vladimir Spivakov performing in Kiev, the Baltic States and France. In 2009 he was selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust in London.

Since moving to Italy in 1997, Alexander has appeared in venues in Turin, Bologna, Naples, Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Teatro Politeama in Palermo, the Auditorio Verdi and Teatro dal Verme in Milan and the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. Further afield, he has given concerts in the USA and Japan.

Notably, in 2007 Alexander has performed on an invitation at the Papal Residence in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI in a concert celebrating the 110th Anniversary of Pope Paul VI's birth.

2010/2011 season highlights included the debut with the Chicago Symphony and James Conlon in Ravinia and with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert in Vail, concerts at the Stresa and Colmar festivals and performances with the National Philharmonic of Russia and Vladimir Spivakov, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Fedoseyev.

Alexander Romanovsky opened the 25th "Master Pianists Series" at the Main Hall of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. During last seasons he played with the Filarmonica della Scala at the Teatro alla Scala, the Hallé Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker. He also returned to Moscow, St.Petersburg, the Auditorio Verdi in Milan, the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome and gave recitals in Genova, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

In February 2014 a new recording by Alexander Romanovsky was released on Decca. Among future engagements, a tour with Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and recitals through all Europe.

Since 2013, Alexander Romanovsky is the artistic director of the Krainev International Competition for Young Pianists in Kharkov, Ukraine.